The volume covers different theoretical approaches to legal evidence including the nature and function of evidence, proof, and law of evidence. It also covers a wide range of contemporary debates on topics such as truth, proof, economics, gender, and race.

Evidence, truth and knowledge 1: Hock Lai Ho: Evidence and truth 2: Gabriel Broughton, Brian Leiter: The Naturalized epistemology approach to evidence 3: Jordi Ferrer Beltrán: Proven facts, beliefs and reasoned verdicts 4: Lena Wahlberg, Christian Dahlman: The role of the expert witness Law and factfinding 5: Frederick Schauer: The role of rules in the law of evidence 6: Jules Holroyd, Federico Picinali: Excluding evidence for integrity's sake 7: Alex Stein: Second-personal evidence 8: Mark Spottswood: Burdens of proof 9: Dale Nance: Weight of evidence 10: Talia Fisher: Cost-benefit analysis of fact-finding Evidence, language and argumentation 11: Lawrence Solan: Linguistic evidentials and the law of hearsay 12: Giovanni Tuzet: The pragmatics of evidence discourse 13: Floris Bex: Argumentation and evidence Evidence and explanation 14: Ronald Allen, Michael Pardo: Inference to the best explanation, relative plausibility and probability 15: Anne Ruth Mackor, Peter van Koppen: The scenario theory about evidence in criminal law 16: Amalia Amaya: Coherence in legal evidence Evidence and probability 17: Franco Taroni, Alex Biedermann, Silvia Bozza: The logic of inference and decision for scientific evidence 18: Norman Fenton, David Lagnado: Bayesianism: objections and rebuttals 19: Christian Dahlman, Eivind Kolflaath: The problem of the prior in criminal trials 20: Michael Pardo, Ronald Allen: Generalizations and reference classes Proof paradoxes 21: Mark Spottswood: Paradoxes of proof 22: Christian Dahlman, Amit Pundik: The problem of naked statistical evidence Biases and epistemic injustice 23: Justin Sevier: Evidence law and empirical psychology 24: Julia Simon-Kerr: Relevance through a feminist lens 25: Jasmine Gonzales Rose: Race, evidence and epistemic injustice 26: Frank Zenker: De-biasing legal fact-finders

Christian Dahlman is Professor of Jurisprudence at Lund University (Sweden) and holds the Samuel Pufendorf chair at the Faculty of Law. He has a PhD in philosophy of law from Lund University and his academic career includes a research fellowship at Cambridge University. His main area of research is the theory and methodology of legal evidence. He is the director of the cross-disciplinary research group LEVIC (Law, Evidence and Cognition) at Lund University. Alex Stein is a Justice of the Israel Supreme Court. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of London. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he served as a Professor of Law at the Hebrew University, Cardozo Law School and Brooklyn Law School and as a Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia, Harvard and Yale law schools, among others. His areas of research include Evidence, Legal Theory, and Economic Analysis of Law. Giovanni Tuzet is Professor of Philosophy of Law at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy). He studied law and philosophy in Turin and Paris and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on C.S. Peirce's theory of inference. Before joining Bocconi University, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Lausanne (Switzerland) and Ferrara (Italy). His areas of interest include evidence, epistemology, pragmatism, argumentation theory, philosophy of law and economic analysis of law.

Discusses different theoretical approaches to legal evidence (for example, the Bayesian approach and explanationism) Covers epistemology, philosophy of language and mind, moral and political philosophy, psychology and the limits of cognition and critical theories. Offers a cross-disciplinary approach to evidence law, including philosophy (law, philosophy, psychology, mathematics, linguistics) Written by a team of leading scholars from twelve countries